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NASA mission to rescue a space telescope plummeting to Earth launches into orbit

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NASA mission to rescue a space telescope plummeting to Earth launches into orbit
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Editor's note: This article was updated at 06:53 EDT on July 3 with news that the mission has launched and reached orbit.A rescue spacecraft set to speed toward a NASA telescope to prevent it from falling into Earth's atmosphere has launched into orbit.The first-of-its-kind mission reached orbit after launching at 4:36 a.m. EDT (0836 GMT) Friday (July 3) from the Marshall Islands, carrying a robot-arm spacecraft named Link into the sky aboard a modified Lockheed Martin L-1011 airliner. In midair

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